SENAIDA | Winner of the CIFRA Award 2025

research-based art

performance art

interactive art

augmented reality

mixed reality

sound art

field recording

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The Plastic Brain

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"The Plastic Brain" (2024), bioplastic sculpture & interactive audio-visual installation
Premiered on Oct. 5, 2024 at NYU GSAS Sounds of De/Composition Conference 2024


Our planet is contaminated with plastic waste and microplastics, from our oceans to our volcanoes at the core of the Earth. But what about the human body? Researchers have recently discovered that microplastics from our gut can also travel up to our brains, breaking the blood-brain barrier and exposing our brains to harmful substances leading to more diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer's.

“The Plastic Brain” is an intermedia installation exploring the relationship between our environments and how contamination and pollution of the Earth results to the pollution of our own bodies. By using various methods of spectrography to analyze photos of polluted NYC streets, SENAIDA creates a sonic landscape of our decomposing environments which are a reflection of the decomposing of our bodies through harmful gaseous chemicals and microplastics. 

Created with the support of the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Materials used: Bioplastic brain sculpture (agar agar, glycerine, water, food colouring), Optoma projectors, Muse EEG Headband, Arduino Nano

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